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Bookmark or Share- Essays - Daniel MarkovitsSep 11, 2019 Meritocracy and the Politics of Progressive Taxes The Meritocracy Trap claims that meritocratic inequality resists many of the most politically potent arguments for progressive taxes. Aristocratic rentiers…
- The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel MarkovitsMarkovits’s new book, The Meritocracy Trap (Penguin Press), places meritocracy at the center of rising economic inequality and social and political dysfunction. The book takes up the law, economics, and politics of human capital to identify the mechanisms through which meritocracy breeds inequality and to expose the burdens that meritocratic ...
- More Evidence of Snowball Inequality - Daniel MarkovitsThe complex interactions described in The Meritocracy Trap, especially among the overlapping causes behind snowball inequality, only compound the difficulty. They make it impossible for the book to deploy the approaches to discerning causes that dominate the natural and social sciences.
- Meritocracy and the Politics of Progressive TaxesThe Meritocracy Trap claims that meritocratic inequality resists many of the most politically potent arguments for progressive taxes. Aristocratic rentiers exploited workers while contributing nothing to society save their (inherited) wealth.
- Are the One Percent Capitalists or Superordinate Workers?The Meritocracy Trap takes a different view concerning the present—and argues that both top incomes and the increase in the 1 percent’s share of national income continue to be dominated by labor. The disagreement about the present has two (overlapping) components.
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